The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 85
... represented by the empty stage adorned with the figures of those houses . Not that they always followed this , for in the Suppliants and in the Ion of Euripides , the scene is before a temple , and in the Ajax of Sophocles , the scene ...
... represented by the empty stage adorned with the figures of those houses . Not that they always followed this , for in the Suppliants and in the Ion of Euripides , the scene is before a temple , and in the Ajax of Sophocles , the scene ...
Page 87
... represents a thing of which it has no resem- blance . Let it then be settled for a constant maxim that the proscenium or floor of the stage can represent nothing but some open place of an ordinary extent where those that are represented ...
... represents a thing of which it has no resem- blance . Let it then be settled for a constant maxim that the proscenium or floor of the stage can represent nothing but some open place of an ordinary extent where those that are represented ...
Page 118
... represented upon our theatres , follows the same rules to judge exactly of them as the poet doth to describe them well , and the better to succeed in this he removes his mind from all that he sees in fashion ; he endeavors to disengage ...
... represented upon our theatres , follows the same rules to judge exactly of them as the poet doth to describe them well , and the better to succeed in this he removes his mind from all that he sees in fashion ; he endeavors to disengage ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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